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Red Wings Over the Yalu
Xiaming Zhang
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Description for Red Wings Over the Yalu
The Korean War was pivotal in China's modern military history. Based on Chinese and Russian archival materials and interviews with Chinese participants in the air war, this work, presenting the Chinese point of view, stands as both a complement and a corrective to previous accounts of the conflict. Series: Texas A & M University Military History S. Num Pages: 304 pages, 26 b&w photographs, 4 maps, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1FPK; 3JJP; HBJF; HBLW3; JWG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 708.
The Korean War was a pivotal event in China's modern military history. The fighting in Korea constituted an important experience for the newly formed People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF), not only as a test case for this fledgling service but also in the later development of Chinese air power. Xiaoming Zhang fills the gaps in the history of this conflict by basing his research on declassified Chinese and Russian archival materials and interviews with Chinese participants in the air war over Korea. Zhang's findings challenge conventional wisdom as he compares kill ratios and performance by all sides involved in ... Read more
The Korean War was a pivotal event in China's modern military history. The fighting in Korea constituted an important experience for the newly formed People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF), not only as a test case for this fledgling service but also in the later development of Chinese air power. Xiaoming Zhang fills the gaps in the history of this conflict by basing his research on declassified Chinese and Russian archival materials and interviews with Chinese participants in the air war over Korea. Zhang's findings challenge conventional wisdom as he compares kill ratios and performance by all sides involved in ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Texas A & M University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Series
Texas A & M University Military History S.
Number of Pages
304
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
College Station, United States
ISBN
9781585442010
SKU
V9781585442010
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About Xiaming Zhang
The Journal of Military history has twice selected Xiaoming Zhang to receive the Moncado Prize for excellence in the writing of military history. Zhang currently resides in Laredo, Texas, where he teaches at Texas A&M International University.
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